Category Archives: Personal Updates
Financial Update for August 2010
I decided to start posting regular updates on my financial performance. I feel that documenting and consolidating the results from Microsoft Money would help me to reach my goals more easily. For the purpose of this blog, I will post increases and decreases in assets, debt, and various ratios. However, I am a bit reluctant to post actual figures in currency. Summary I was a bit surprised this month to find yet a again an increase in assets and decrease in liabilities, in despite of some losses I took on speculative options. Total assets dropped by 2.6%. However, so did my long-term loan, >> Read More
10 Months After My First Post
It has now been around 10 months after I had written my first article. I feel a bit funny reading my own articles from 2009, and I realize that at that time I was still very focussed on making my finances more visible and reducing expenses. As far as tracking my finances, I have definitely done a good job. I use Microsoft Money to track all my finances and investments. On the expense side of things, I was on a very tight budget early this year, which worked out quite well. Unfortunately, I noticed how the quality of my life started to suffer, and I felt I was being sucked into a feeling of >> Read More
Becoming a Millionaire, and “The Million Dollar Club”
I have to be completely honest with you: I have always wanted to become a millionaire… I think since I was 16 or so. So then, why am I not already. I mean, I have had 16 years of my life to achieve that goal… I believe life is so exciting, fast paced, and emotional, that we quickly tend to lose sight of our goals. At least I do every now and then. For this reason, I was extremely surprised, or perhaps call it relieved, to find a “Million Dollar Club” on the web. The Million Dollar Club is a non-exclusive, no-nonsense club for those who want to become a millionaire. >> Read More
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